Title :
Low power hardware for a high performance PDA
Author_Institution :
Apple Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
Abstract :
The first product in the Newton family operates under severe constraints in the areas of performance, cost, heat dissipation, power consumption, scalability, size and weight. This paper gives an overview of the Newton MessagePad system hardware, and focuses on the techniques and tradeoffs used to overcome these constraints. In particular, synergetic migration of functions from hardware to software and vice-versa are discussed.
Keywords :
notebook computers; Newton MessagePad system hardware; heat dissipation; high performance PDA; low power hardware; personal digital assistant; power consumption; Costs; Energy consumption; Energy management; Hardware; High performance computing; Memory management; Permission; Personal digital assistants; Power system management; Reduced instruction set computing;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics, 1994. Digest of Technical Papers., IEEE Symposium
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1953-2
DOI :
10.1109/LPE.1994.573192
